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i don't know that people have been worrying as much about the next defense secretary. if there's anything you can say about him, he is his own man. while i think everyone likes him in the senate, it's not entirely clear how he would behave. there are some questions, for example, about his history on the homosexuals in the military. there's some questions about that. it's not entirely clear to me this will rise to the level as it did with susan rice, who remove her nomination in the last month or so. i don't know what the other options are, and with the secretary of state issue, you always had senator kerry as the option, which i think in the senate people were much more comfortable with that. if there were another name to be floated, that could either make former senator hagel's chances rise or fall. >> a clear backup plan. >> exactly. >> to the point you were making, gale rights groups speaking out against hagel, but he did have a written apology for an insensitive colt that you were alluding to from 14 years ago. on that issue here, shirra, when we look at that apolo
i don't know that people have been worrying as much about the next defense secretary. if there's anything you can say about him, he is his own man. while i think everyone likes him in the senate, it's not entirely clear how he would behave. there are some questions, for example, about his history on the homosexuals in the military. there's some questions about that. it's not entirely clear to me this will rise to the level as it did with susan rice, who remove her nomination in the last month...
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he says he hasn't made a defense choice yet. he says failure to reach a fiscal deal would hurt the markets. and as we've been talking about the president wants gun measures passed 2013, something he said in the course of our interview. we'll take another break here. be back in just a moment. >>> thank you all for the discussion today and for all your contributions to the program this year. i really appreciate it.
he says he hasn't made a defense choice yet. he says failure to reach a fiscal deal would hurt the markets. and as we've been talking about the president wants gun measures passed 2013, something he said in the course of our interview. we'll take another break here. be back in just a moment. >>> thank you all for the discussion today and for all your contributions to the program this year. i really appreciate it.
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own a gun but it stands only for the constitutional right to possess a handgun in the home for self-defense. it doesn't say anything about guns on the streets, although other lower courts are beginning to chew on that question and it may be coming to the supreme court. but in general gun legislation has pretty much withstood the supreme court decision. it says possession by certain can be banned, it's not a get out of jail free card for anybody who opposes gun legislation. >> pete williams, thank you so much for that perspective for us there in washington, d.c. >> let's bring in our panel to talk more about the politics of this heated debate. jake, start with you. you work on the hill and the question now is is there 60 votes in the senate, there are 218 votes in the house for gun control legislation to get passed? >> i think before you start count being the votes you have to consider whether speaker john boehner will even bring this to the floor. he was asked last week if he supports gun control measures, he said he was very noncommittal, he said he'll look at anything but speaker john boe
own a gun but it stands only for the constitutional right to possess a handgun in the home for self-defense. it doesn't say anything about guns on the streets, although other lower courts are beginning to chew on that question and it may be coming to the supreme court. but in general gun legislation has pretty much withstood the supreme court decision. it says possession by certain can be banned, it's not a get out of jail free card for anybody who opposes gun legislation. >> pete...
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the defense of marriage act defines marriage as between -- being between a man and a woman. the result of it is that over 1,000 federal laws are not available to same-sex couples. the result of this is that it is an impact from state to state as gu from, say, new york or maine that's about to adopt same-sex marriage to states like wisconsin, which is outlawed it. may not recognize the rights of same-sex couples that would be available to them in the states that granted them the right to marry. >> so when we talk about the supreme court, the cases that they have chosen to take on, one which is doma, the other is prop 8, which deals specifically with california, do you think that the supreme court is more likely to come back with a definitive ruling on doma because it is a federal case as opposed to prop 8, which has been brought up in buoyed through the state system. people sfloo people who want to get married, who are same-sex couples after the affect of p p prop, can't do so, but people who manage to squeeze into that window can, so there's a denial of equal protection, whi
the defense of marriage act defines marriage as between -- being between a man and a woman. the result of it is that over 1,000 federal laws are not available to same-sex couples. the result of this is that it is an impact from state to state as gu from, say, new york or maine that's about to adopt same-sex marriage to states like wisconsin, which is outlawed it. may not recognize the rights of same-sex couples that would be available to them in the states that granted them the right to marry....
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would you not to say, look, this is our defense? >> no, i think concealed carry offers the element of surprise so the perpetrator does not know who will be the one who will fire back. that uncertainty is one of the reasons that we find the crime rates low in areas where there is high gun ownership and carry of concealed firearms. converse conversely, in our urban areas where they've been very hostile to gun ownership and gun carrying, that's where we find america's high murder rates. >> larry, i want to play this for you. last hour i spoke to james langvin, and he was injured in an accidental shooting that left him confined to a wheelchair when he was 16 and here's why he said guns in schools are not good. >> my accident, when i had my accident as a young police cadet happened in the police station at the hands of two weapons experts on the police s.w.a.t. team. if that doesn't prove that an accident with a weapon can happen anywhere, i don't know what does. we don't need more guns being around our children in schools. >> what do yo
would you not to say, look, this is our defense? >> no, i think concealed carry offers the element of surprise so the perpetrator does not know who will be the one who will fire back. that uncertainty is one of the reasons that we find the crime rates low in areas where there is high gun ownership and carry of concealed firearms. converse conversely, in our urban areas where they've been very hostile to gun ownership and gun carrying, that's where we find america's high murder rates....
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government funding fight and we're going go with the president regarding the sequester, these automatic defense cuts. so there's this idea now amongst republicans that's formulating in the house, all right, we might lose this one and get embarrassed. but you know what? we're going to be just as strong as we need to be in the next 8 to 12 weeks, because there are a lot more battles where we can engage the president and get him to make cuts to entitlements that we want to see. it's an interesting mindset, one that's being implemented and house republicans are saying let's not shed too much blood on this fight anymore, because it's not one we're likely to win. but it's setting the table for a very interesting very few next months. this could be the first real fight to the end of many. >> luke russert, thank you. >>> coming up, a down-to-the wire negotiations on the fiscal cliff. >>> republicans have taken their demand for social security benefits off the table. truth is, they should have never been on the table to begin with. there's still significant difference between the two sides but negotiati
government funding fight and we're going go with the president regarding the sequester, these automatic defense cuts. so there's this idea now amongst republicans that's formulating in the house, all right, we might lose this one and get embarrassed. but you know what? we're going to be just as strong as we need to be in the next 8 to 12 weeks, because there are a lot more battles where we can engage the president and get him to make cuts to entitlements that we want to see. it's an interesting...